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Austrian concert and opera singer
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2023-08-30 09:54:00
Salzburg Festival (7) - The Greek Passion, 22 August 2023
FelsenreitschuleGrigoris - Gábor BretzManolios - Sebastian KohlheppKaterina - Sara JakubiakYannakos - Charles WorkmanLenio - Christina GanschAndonis - Matteo Ivan RašićMichelis - Matthäus SchmidlechnerKostandis - Alejandro Baliñas VietesPanais - Julian HubbardNikolio - Aljoscha LennertOld Woman - Helena ReskerThe Patriarcheas - Luke StokerLadas - Robert DölleFotis - Łukasz GolińskiOld Man - Scott WildeDespinio - Teona Todua Director - Simon StoneSet designs - Lizzie ClachanCostumes - Mel PageLighting - Nick SchlieperDramaturgy - Christian ArseniConcert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus (chorus director: Huw Rhys James)Salzburg Festival and Theatre Children’s Choir (chorus director: Wolfgang Götz)Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna PhilharmonicVienna Philharmonic OrchestraMaxime Pascal (conductor)Images: © SF/Monika RittershausSalzburg’s new production of Bohuslav Martinů‘s opera The Greek Passion has much going for it, but alas one major thing against, at least for me. The latter I shall come to, but let us first consider the positives. The theme of the opera and Nikos Kazantzakis’s […]
2023-01-29 01:04:00
San Francisco Opera 2023-24
[…] it better the second time under the revival director, who is also directing this revival.Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, libretto by Rhiannon Giddens, Omar. John Kennedy/Jamez McCorkle (Omar), Taylor Raven (Fatima), Brittany Rene (Julie), Norman Garrett (Abdul and Abe), Daniel Okulitsch (Johnson and Owen), Barry Banks (Auctioneer and Taylor). SFO co-commission. Donizetti, L'elisir d'amore. Ramon Tebar/Pene Pati (Nemorino), Slávka Zámečníková (Adina), David Bižić (Belcore), Renato Girolami (Dulcamara). Production new to SFO, by Daniel Slater. Summer 2024: Mozart, Die Zauberflote. Kim/Amitai Pati (Tamino), Christina Gansch (Pamina), Lauri Vasar (Papageno), Kwangchul Youn (Sarastro), Anna Simińska (Queen of the Night), Zhengyi Bai (Monastatos). No Papagena announced. Production new to SF, by Barrie Kosky, set in the 1920s and using a lot of animation. It's been done in LA and Chicago and is popular. Kaija Saariaho, Innocence. Clément Mao-Takacs/Ruxandra Donose, Claire de Sevigne, Rod GIlfry, Miles Mykkanen, Kristinn Sigmundsson, Lucy Shlton, Vilma Jaa. US premiere, SFO co-production. "Sung in English, Finnish, Czech, Romanian, French, Swedish, German, Spanish and Greek with English supertitles." […]
2022-09-21 20:40:20
Soprano Meigui Zhang (pictured) will make her role debut as Eurydice in San Francisco Opera's Orpheus and Eurydice which opens on November 15. She replaces Christina Gansch who is expecting her second child and has withdrawn from the production. Orpheus...
2022-09-21 19:37:00
War Memorial Opera House and Veterans BuildingProbably around 1932Hand-colored postcard, Lisa Hirsch collectionFirst it was Julia Bullock, now it's Christina Gansch:SAN FRANCISCO, CA (September 21, 2022) — San Francisco Opera announced today a cast change for its upcoming new production of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice (Orfeo ed Euridice), opening November 15. Soprano Meigui Zhang will make her role debut as Eurydice, replacing Christina Gansch who is expecting her second child and has withdrawn from the production. Meigui Zhang made her Company debut this past summer as Dai Yu (“sung with brightly quivering intensity,” San Francisco Chronicle) in Bright Sheng and David Henry Hwang’s Dream of the Red Chamber. The fast-rising soprano is featured in San Francisco Opera’s award-winning video portrait series, In Song. Released in June 2022, In Song: Meigui Zhang features Zhang reconnecting with her family in Chengdu, China and performing Eva Dell'Acqua's "Villanelle," Mozart’s “Das Veilchen” (“The Violet”) and the Kazakh folk song "A Lovely Rose." Though Zhang’s journey […]
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